P: Add text notes to photos, stacks, folders, directories, collections

A nice feature add for organization would be a text description field on a Collection, Smart and Standard, for including other details about that Collection. The Collection Name needs to stay brief. The description should also support external links to files, online blogs, and web sites.

The feature:
1. Adding a general note to a catalog
2. Adding a text note - per image

In some more details:
When editing large projects it is very often not a single session process. When getting back to it there is always the need to 'remember' what has been done so far and where are we at. 
i.e. In my work flow I do a couple of passes over a session. the 1st one to filter bad images, the 2nd to adjust colors, exposure and more.
If I'm waiting for something and getting back to it a week later I cannot tell where I am so the ability to add a note to a picture ("last one i fixed") or a general one to the catalog ("Waiting for client remarks") will do miracles to the work process.

Aditions:
Taking it one step further like searching the notes or creating TAGs can be great.

Implementation:
- To keep it clean, adding a small  icon to the image's name - both on the filmstrip and in image display  area - for pictures with text\tag,  will be enough. Hovering oner that icon should bring up a popup withe the text\tags of that picture.
- Entering picture text can be done when right clicking the picture - from the popup menu that appears and it should be as a flowting box (so that is keeps the image visable at some level)
- The general catalog text link may be placed under the Catalog section of the panels. So that clicking it will open the note in the 'working' area instead of a picture.
It should also popup when openning a catalog if there is text in that catalog's note field (with the option to disable it from prefrences) .

Feel free to contact me if there are any clerifications needed or if I can assist in any way.
Gil Uriel
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As a working pro photographer I often want to be able to add a note to an image.  Using simething (even the BigNote plugin) in the right hand panel is still a bit 'hidden', so I thibk it would be really practicale to have either a really obvious sticky post-note facility which you can attach to the image itself - or a note facility on the Toolbar

In Lightroom Classic,
It would be useful to add Add an "Annotation tool", a visual tool to speed up the workflow

without having to go through Photoshop.

A field to be able to add notes to a photo would be an excellent addition. I understand there are third party plugins that add this ability, but i'm hesitant to rely on a developer that may abandon a project or it may stop working in the future. 

"To build on Bill's suggestions, some variants:"

@johnrellis

Thanks!  That bumps it up a notch or two!

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To build on Bill's suggestions, some variants:

1. Make a dummy file called "__NOTES.jpg". Use the Metadata > Edit Capture Time command to set its capture date to 1900/1/1 and do Metadata > Save Metadata To File. Then to add notes to a folder, place a copy of that file in the folder and do Synchronize Folder to import it. The file's name and capture date will ensure it sorts to the beginning of the folder.

Select the photo and use the Large Caption to enter and view the notes for that folder, which will get stored in the catalog's Caption field (and optionally, to the caption of the dummy file):

2. If you want to continue using Word, use the Any File plugin to import the .docx files into the catalog.

Is it possible to add notes to a folder in Lightroom Classic? I often need to write notes that apply to a full shoot - say, about settings, or a client's preferences, or deadlines, or billing - that I don't want in the photos' metadata. I now keep these notes in Word files. I gather there isn't a Lightroom folder notes function - at least not one that I've found - so perhaps Adobe could create one?

Thanks!

As a User I want to be able to create simple (post'it) notes on my images for ideas i get when culling or in the progress of editing an image, to remember ideas or where I left off an image. 

Could also be sitting with a client talking about the changes that the client want. So i dont need a word doc with a reference number to the image.

Next step could be a very simple brush tool for drawing arrow from a post'it note. 

Usually, when taking pictures, it is often on a daily basis. Then, I would like to have a description field where I could describe the set of pictures (Where, When, Who, Why, anecdotes, conditions...).
An option should be available to add the desccription to the pictures.
It could be useful for photo book.